They're not even really a big secret anymore. You can go to a website right now and for less than $500 get a rock so big and bright your girlfriend's panties will break the sound barrier hitting the ground.

URL or we'll be forced to call shenanigans.

http://www.diamondnexus.com/round-brilliant-cut-classic-series.html

You can get a 4.91 carat synthetic diamond from them for less than 500. If you want to go comically large they offer a 16 carat diamond for $1600. Please don't do that, though. Nobody will believe you've got the scratch for a 16 carat diamond unless people think you've got a cool mil lying around just for rings.

Diamond Nexus, at least last time I looked a them, sells diamond stimulants. If you look at their dispersion and hardness figures they don't line up with real diamonds. Maybe they changed their business model, but last I looked they weren't actual lab made diamonds.

durbnpoisn:Here is the thing about pricing diamonds. The things are only worth what someone will pay. You could argue that they ~100 karat diamond in the Queen's crown could be worth millions. But in reality, it's sitting in a case in London, and will never be sold to anyone. Ever. So, it's effectively worthless.

A couple of days ago, there was a crazy robbery at an airport in Europe (somewhere). They made off with like $50 million (or something like that), in loose diamonds. How much are they really worth? If they can get anyone to by them at all, considering how hot they are, they will sell for pennies compared to their supposed worth.

They're not even really a big secret anymore. You can go to a website right now and for less than $500 get a rock so big and bright your girlfriend's panties will break the sound barrier hitting the ground.

URL or we'll be forced to call shenanigans.

http://www.diamondnexus.com/round-brilliant-cut-classic-series.html

You can get a 4.91 carat synthetic diamond from them for less than 500. If you want to go comically large they offer a 16 carat diamond for $1600. Please don't do that, though. Nobody will believe you've got the scratch for a 16 carat diamond unless people think you've got a cool mil lying around just for rings.

Diamond Nexus, at least last time I looked a them, sells diamond stimulants. If you look at their dispersion and hardness figures they don't line up with real diamonds. Maybe they changed their business model, but last I looked they weren't actual lab made diamonds.

Indistinguishable to the naked eye, though. Yeah, they are simulants. But if you gave one to a girl, put it in a nice setting, and showed her friends they wouldn't bust out the microscopes and start checking to see if the facets are naturally occurring.

I can see how it's not technically a diamond. But if it's indistinguishable to the naked eye and a tiny fraction of the price of an artificially price-inflated rock mined by slave labor, then it's the same to me.

relcec:durbnpoisn: Here is the thing about pricing diamonds. The things are only worth what someone will pay. You could argue that they ~100 karat diamond in the Queen's crown could be worth millions. But in reality, it's sitting in a case in London, and will never be sold to anyone. Ever. So, it's effectively worthless.

A couple of days ago, there was a crazy robbery at an airport in Europe (somewhere). They made off with like $50 million (or something like that), in loose diamonds. How much are they really worth? If they can get anyone to by them at all, considering how hot they are, they will sell for pennies compared to their supposed worth.

#1. Deadliest Warrior is a one on one competition (or at least it was when the Apache won) so there is no Phalanx formation.#2. The Roman Gladiator, in this case, is equipped with a rather small shield - one about the size and weight expected of a gladiator. Remember, the point of the battle was offense, blood, kills.#3. The fight occurs (in this scenario) in the woods and at range. Not exactly "home turf" for the Gladiator.#4. The Gladiator comes to battle with a net. I mean, come on. A net.

May as well have made the gladiator naked and only holding a nerf dildo and the Apache swinging a chainsaw. Talk about a rigged fight in the name of Political Correctness.

They're not even really a big secret anymore. You can go to a website right now and for less than $500 get a rock so big and bright your girlfriend's panties will break the sound barrier hitting the ground.

URL or we'll be forced to call shenanigans.

In about 5 minutes, I found a site that makes synthetic stones. Many of the synthetics they sell must be really sloppily made, because they retail for like $15. However, a 1-karat pure carbon diamong goes for roughly $4000.

What's the point of paying $4000 for a low-quality lab diamond when a low-quality natural diamond goes for the same price? Blue Nile has a 1 carat J/SI2/fair for $3300.

You can get a 4.91 carat synthetic diamond from them for less than 500. If you want to go comically large they offer a 16 carat diamond for $1600. Please don't do that, though. Nobody will believe you've got the scratch for a 16 carat diamond unless people think you've got a cool mil lying around just for rings.

Diamond Nexus, at least last time I looked a them, sells diamond stimulants. If you look at their dispersion and hardness figures they don't line up with real diamonds. Maybe they changed their business model, but last I looked they weren't actual lab made diamonds.

Those look like cubic zirconias. CZ have always been cheap. Their "pure carbon" stuff is just as expensive as natural diamonds.

Treygreen13:#4. The Gladiator comes to battle with a net. I mean, come on. A net.

yeah, but......that was bullshiat! did they not see Gladiator? that show is a fraud! no freaking way apache warrior beats russell crowe! no way! no freaking way! Tyberius Maximus was a warrior, man! gladiator was awesome! apache warrior only had a bow and arrow! that was bullshiat!

ITGreenSo one diamond will atone for Britain's colonial wrongdoings? No? Then giving it back is only the first in a line of "atonement" gestures to be demanded later by India.

I actually agree with the British on this one; nip this stunt of theirs in the bud.

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They're not even really a big secret anymore. You can go to a website right now and for less than $500 get a rock so big and bright your girlfriend's panties will break the sound barrier hitting the ground.

URL or we'll be forced to call shenanigans.

http://www.diamondnexus.com/round-brilliant-cut-classic-series.html

You can get a 4.91 carat synthetic diamond from them for less than 500. If you want to go comically large they offer a 16 carat diamond for $1600. Please don't do that, though. Nobody will believe you've got the scratch for a 16 carat diamond unless people think you've got a cool mil lying around just for rings.

Diamond Nexus, at least last time I looked a them, sells diamond stimulants. If you look at their dispersion and hardness figures they don't line up with real diamonds. Maybe they changed their business model, but last I looked they weren't actual lab made diamonds.

If you look at their FAQ page, you can see that they are selling a type of hardened CZ. It's really bit of misrepresentation if you ask me. It's not "diamond" at all. In fact, if you read their FAQ, they actually state that little of their stones is Carbon.

They're not even really a big secret anymore. You can go to a website right now and for less than $500 get a rock so big and bright your girlfriend's panties will break the sound barrier hitting the ground.

#1. Deadliest Warrior is a one on one competition (or at least it was when the Apache won) so there is no Phalanx formation.#2. The Roman Gladiator, in this case, is equipped with a rather small shield - one about the size and weight expected of a gladiator. Remember, the point of the battle was offense, blood, kills.#3. The fight occurs (in this scenario) in the woods and at range. Not exactly "home turf" for the Gladiator.#4. The Gladiator comes to battle with a net. I mean, come on. A net.

May as well have made the gladiator naked and only holding a nerf dildo and the Apache swinging a chainsaw. Talk about a rigged fight in the name of Political Correctness.

It is by no means a fair fight. Some of the choices they make for certain fighters/groups are silly. The most egregiously bad weapon choice was the Somali Pirate getting the "Grappling Hook" as their melee weapon. Of course, that hilariously bad weapon choice didn't change the fact that they won.

Perhaps the worst weapon of all time was the SWAT Team's Taser Shockwave, which was basically a Claymore that shot taser prongs. It, predictably, did not kill anyone.

vudukungfu:Ebba dabba dooba, surley they weel geeve eet back.Yeah, How about you guys figure out how to use flush toilets, drink clean water, get the cows off the streets, stop stampeding your own people during religious parties, and kick the Muslim psychos out, first, and then we'll talk.About hiring you back as houseboy.

Most if Europe can't stop people from being crushed during soccer games.

They're not even really a big secret anymore. You can go to a website right now and for less than $500 get a rock so big and bright your girlfriend's panties will break the sound barrier hitting the ground.

URL or we'll be forced to call shenanigans.

http://www.diamondnexus.com/round-brilliant-cut-classic-series.html

You can get a 4.91 carat synthetic diamond from them for less than 500. If you want to go comically large they offer a 16 carat diamond for $1600. Please don't do that, though. Nobody will believe you've got the scratch for a 16 carat diamond unless people think you've got a cool mil lying around just for rings.

Diamond Nexus, at least last time I looked a them, sells diamond stimulants. If you look at their dispersion and hardness figures they don't line up with real diamonds. Maybe they changed their business model, but last I looked they weren't actual lab made diamonds.

If you look at their FAQ page, you can see that they are selling a type of hardened CZ. It's really bit of misrepresentation if you ask me. It's not "diamond" at all. In fact, if you read their FAQ, they actually state that little of their stones is Carbon.

True. Of course, if you never told anyone and never tried to sell it as a diamond, nobody would ever know.

Whether or not it's made in a lab, mined by a slave, or something else entirely really doesn't change the fact that they're virtually indistinguishable and make girls go "ooooh".

phalamir:r1niceboy: Britain could always say, "We accept this gem, and the curry, in payment for your country not being ruled by men in pajamas, being a literate society, a democracy, giving your educated sons and daughters a place to earn a decent living, and less of a third world shiathole than would otherwise have been the case. You're welcome!"

You do realize that India fell into shiatholism because the EIC raped it blind, right? Bengal was a top producer of cotton goods, for example, before the EIC got ahold of it - and got turned into a complete importer of sloth by the EIC taking a flame-thrower to the local economy One o0f the things that allowed Britain to be the premier commercial empire was because it was yanking stuff out of India for cheap and then selling the largess at top-shelf prices. Educating the Indians wasn't something done to help the Indians, but because the British needed more clerks than they could reasonably expect to ship over from Dorset. and the idea was educate the Indians to show them that they were inferior to the British, so the Indians would serve as grateful inferiors to Britain. It would be like saying Afro-Americans should be glad the Southern gentry taught them Western agricultural practices. As far as democracy, the British fought tooth and nail to deny India any sort of democratic process. When Canada was getting Dominion status (and the Americans had had local assemblies while colonies), Britain was actively tightening restrictions in India. At best, it was "you can be selected for a minority of seats in this completely toothless assembly that the Viceroy won't even pretend to listen to". Number of Indian seats in Parliament? Zero. Number of local, democratic assemblies in India with deomcratically elected officials? Zero. Anything India got from Britain was in spite of, not because of the British.

phalamir:oldfarthenry: "The diamond had been set in the crown of the current Queen Elizabeth's late mother."

The old broad is dead - what does she care? Give the goddamn thing back!

The article is imprecise. The kiN is set in the Queen-Consort's crown. The Queen Mother was simply the last woman to wear it, being the last Queen Consort. It wasn't her personal jewelry. Supposedly, the thing is cursed, but only if you are a man. So, by putting it in the Queen Consort's crown was supposed to insure it would never be worn by a man again.

Additionally, the diamond was a gift from an Indian Governor of some sort - so you know - they are being "Indian Givers" here.

So you don't believe in "returnism" but you believe in stealing. Cool ethics bro!

THIS. Even if you're not giving it back, at least try and pretend you understand you stole it. FFS. I can understand why you wouldn't want to return it, politics is a dirty game, but you farked up, admit it and move on.

Funny thing, HE didn't steal it. He wasn't even farking alive when it happened. So no, he really doesn't need to understand that.

This is exactly like the blacks demanding reparations for slavery, in the United States. fark you. You weren't a slave, so unless you are going to do forced labor for the next few years, you aren't getting any reparations. Wellfare I guess isn't a reparation.

You ever represented a company before? Did you personally believe the Ecto-Cooler you were selling cured cancer? Nope, but that company sure did. So you opened your mouth and said Ecto-Cooler cured cancer. And thus, when the lawsuit hit, you weren't sued as a person, the company was sued for making false statements.

That's how spokespeople work. He did not personally steal it, or he'd be in farking jail. But the country he's representing did.

So you don't believe in "returnism" but you believe in stealing. Cool ethics bro!

THIS. Even if you're not giving it back, at least try and pretend you understand you stole it. FFS. I can understand why you wouldn't want to return it, politics is a dirty game, but you farked up, admit it and move on.

Funny thing, HE didn't steal it. He wasn't even farking alive when it happened. So no, he really doesn't need to understand that.

This is exactly like the blacks demanding reparations for slavery, in the United States. fark you. You weren't a slave, so unless you are going to do forced labor for the next few years, you aren't getting any reparations. Wellfare I guess isn't a reparation.

You ever represented a company before? Did you personally believe the Ecto-Cooler you were selling cured cancer? Nope, but that company sure did. So you opened your mouth and said Ecto-Cooler cured cancer. And thus, when the lawsuit hit, you weren't sued as a person, the company was sued for making false statements.

That's how spokespeople work. He did not personally steal it, or he'd be in farking jail. But the country he's representing did.

unlikely:cretinbob: "The right answer is for the British Museum and other cultural institutions to do exactly what they do, which is to link up with other institutions around the world to make sure that the things which we have and look after so well are properly shared with people around the world."

I'm OK with this

I've seen the Elgin marbles, and I've seen the current state of the original from which they were cast. I'm 100% okay with the British Museum hanging on to a great deal of the world's cultural heritage.

johnnyq:I'm all for acknowledging our forebears mistakes and making up where we can, but Sir Harry Paget Flashman, VC, KCB, KCIE, didn't go through all that trouble during the First Sikh War smuggling the Koh-i-Noor out just to have it handed right back.

rickythepenguin:Treygreen13: #4. The Gladiator comes to battle with a net. I mean, come on. A net.

yeah, but......that was bullshiat! did they not see Gladiator? that show is a fraud! no freaking way apache warrior beats russell crowe! no way! no freaking way! Tyberius Maximus was a warrior, man! gladiator was awesome! apache warrior only had a bow and arrow! that was bullshiat!